City Under Siege (1969)

In the postwar years, many photographs and newsreels taken during the Siege were confiscated and destroyed for presenting too “subjective” a view of the events of that time. This film is the result of a long search through the Leningrad archives. Out of thousands of surviving wartime photographs, the director selected four hundred that had never before been used in cinema. The film is a montage of these historical documents, accompanied by the voices of poets Olga Berggolts and Alexander Prokofyev, radio announcer Yuri Levitan, and the sounds of air raid sirens…

• Release Date: 1969-05-07
• Runtime: 0h 20min
• Production Company: Leningrad Documentary Film Studio
• Production Country: Soviet Union
• Director: Pavel Kogan